Rising from an out-of-body experience, ‘Shake Shake’ is a four-minute flurry of ghost-gaze. Trembling drums, tremolo keys, and echoing guitars create the haunting backdrop, as Salford alt-psychs Carousel Clouds exorcise their phantom selves.

 “Carousel Clouds take the best bits of psych, prog and shoegaze and create concise pop songs of intense, vertiginous beauty. The dark side has rarely sounded so appealing. For fans of: Spiritualized, Daughter, Lanterns on the Lake, Echo & The Bunnymen.” - Manchester Evening News 

“Entrancing” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

Shake Shake EP is released on 27th October 2023, via Ranch Records

Shake Shake

Hope.

‘Skin and Bones’ melodically grows moving guitar and mournful vocal, through keys and tribal drums, into a rousing, defiant stomp. In a volatile. unpredictable world, allow this four-minute call-to-arms by Salford alt-psychs Carousel Clouds to inspire a crescendo of hope. 

‘Won’t give up...’ 


‘Skin and Bones’ is released on 21st June 2024, via Ranch Records 

Carousel Clouds play Manchester Withington Public Hall on Friday, 21st June 2024, with Michael Gallagher, Bolshevik Rollups, and James Young.

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Engineered and mixed by Dickon Kyme-Wright at The Ranch.
Mastered by Dickon Kyme-Wright at The Ranch and Neil Meehan at Adirf Studios.

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Skin and Bones

"This adventure doesn't end here..."
Taken from the Carousel Clouds album 'Control Zed' (released 17th October 2025). A song about going to a music festival (Tramlines) with a ghost.

Some things people have said about Carousel Clouds:
“Entrancing” Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music Recommends

“Carousel Clouds take the best bits of psych, prog and shoegaze and create concise pop songs of intense, vertiginous beauty.” Manchester Evening News

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Splendour

Invisible Lines - debut release by Carousel Clouds, released 7th July 2017, on Ranch Records.

"Entrancing" - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

4-track single 'Invisible Lines' available from: https://carouselclouds.bandcamp.com/releases
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Invisible Lines

Always talking - released 3rd November 2017

4-track pay-what-you-choose download or limited edition CD, available from:
https://carouselclouds.bandcamp.com/album/always-talking

Follow up to the BBC 6-Music recommended debut single 'Invisible Lines', and taken from the debut Carousel Clouds album (released 2018). 'Always Talking' was exclusively premiered on BBC Radio Manchester in August 2017, played by BBC Merseyside in September 2017, and is released on Ranch Records in November 2017.

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Carousel Clouds will perform at the Salford King's Arms venue.
Also on the bill are Salford act Twin Visions, and Kurtis Starkie, taking time out from his sell-out tour as guitarist with The Slow Readers Club, to showcase his solo material.
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FDEDEI?…=FOLEBPQDgHGp

Always Talking

Salford “ghost-gaze” band Carousel Clouds release single ‘Grace (Look No Further)’ on 14th September 2018 via Ranch Records . Available on a name-your-price basis via the Carousel Clouds shop:
https://carouselclouds.bandcamp.com/album/grace-look-no-further
 
Following the 2017 debut single ‘Invisible Lines’ - which Steve Lamacq labelled “entrancing” on BBC 6Music, and Tom Robinson called a “three-and-a-half-minute epic” on the same station - came the 2018 Carousel Clouds debut long-player Tales of Coincidence, an album recorded with three bassists, and yet without a note of bass played throughout the record... 

On ‘Grace (Look No Further)’, the Salford band echo the lyrical theme in the music, changing moods sweeping through its near-200 seconds, their signature haunting shoegaze-psych sound intact.

Forthcoming single ‘Grace (Look No Further)’ is taken from Tales of Coincidence, a tale being vocalist Neil Meehan describes as one of: “Repetition, monotony, hope and euphoria. We tried to match the lyrics to the music, to the extent that an actual heartbeat is used for they rhythm at one stage.”

Grace (Look No Further)

Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)
Performed by Carousel Clouds
Original version by The Darkness

This song was performed live at the acoustic Carousel Clouds Christmas Shindig on 15th December 2018. All proceeds of the show went to the Fallowfield and Withington foodbank. Donations can be made at:
https://fallowfieldwithington.foodbank.org.uk/

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Xmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)

Shoegazing with the ghosts of Psych

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